Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775D.C. Heath & Company, 1900 |
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... taxed to its utmost in the political arena , there was developed the literature of oratory , and Brit- ish eloquence added new splendor to prose . The times were seeking the man of large and liberal ideas . There existed a reading ...
... taxed to its utmost in the political arena , there was developed the literature of oratory , and Brit- ish eloquence added new splendor to prose . The times were seeking the man of large and liberal ideas . There existed a reading ...
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... Taxation in 1774 ; on Conciliation in 1775 ; and his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol , 1777 . These three pieces are the most perfect manual in all literature for the study of great affairs , whether for the pur- pose of knowledge or ...
... Taxation in 1774 ; on Conciliation in 1775 ; and his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol , 1777 . These three pieces are the most perfect manual in all literature for the study of great affairs , whether for the pur- pose of knowledge or ...
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... taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehensible in it ; something unwise , or something griev- ous ; since , in the midst of our heat and resentment , we , of 15 ourselves ...
... taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehensible in it ; something unwise , or something griev- ous ; since , in the midst of our heat and resentment , we , of 15 ourselves ...
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... taxing . Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ; or on the balance among the several orders of the state . The question of money was not with them so immediate . But ...
... taxing . Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ; or on the balance among the several orders of the state . The question of money was not with them so immediate . But ...
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... taxing . Liberty might be safe , or might be endangered , in twenty other particulars , without their being much pleased or alarmed . Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat , they thought them- selves sick or sound . I ...
... taxing . Liberty might be safe , or might be endangered , in twenty other particulars , without their being much pleased or alarmed . Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat , they thought them- selves sick or sound . I ...
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Страница ix - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Страница 76 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you.
Страница 39 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Страница 16 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Страница 61 - And that it may be proper to repeal an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, "An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Страница 16 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Страница 76 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Страница 15 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Страница xvii - She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Страница 38 - These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other ; where reason is perplexed ; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point " is the great Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk.